my address for packages has
changed as of 5 minutes ago. it is now as follows...
Your Name as Elder or Sister
Postnet Kgale
Box AD 172 ADD (PH:7132-0394)
Gaborone, Botswana
i hope to be sending some things in the mail as well. although i don't know
when they will arrive.
miracles are happening here all the stinkin time! whenever sister randri and
i plan at night and we say we need to get new investigators, or we need to
increase our number of people who are on date for baptism, or whatever, the
next day people flock to us and say "can you teach us?" or "i need to get
baptized into your church, i know it is true" or "can you tell me, who we
are, why are we here, and where are we going?" or my personal favorite
(which happened today), "are you lds?, i need you to teach me about your
faith. i have read your book and i know it is true!" this mission gives a
whole new meaning to the word "golden investigators" it seems that everyone
we talk to is a golden investigator. there are very few who are not willing
to listen. there are challenges though, the main one being lebola (which i
think i told you about), the next is that some of the most golden people
don't speak any english, therefore we can't teach them. i have made it my
goal to speak setswana so that i can become a better instrument in the hands
of God to invite all who will listen to come unto Christ. i don't know how i
am going to accomplish this, the language is HHHAAARRRRDDDD! and boy do i
mean that. there are no clicks in it but it sounds like jibberish and all of
the words sound the same, but they aren't because there is different
emphasis on one of the letters in the word. the emphasis is the difference
bettween hello and some other bad word that when you say it, people don't
like you anymore. i know 4 words... hey i guess that means i have al ot to
learn. i know that God has all power (mosiah 4:9) and i know i don't
comprehend all he can. i also know he brought the jews out of egypt, he
parted the red sea, he made water come out of a rock, he created the
stinking earth and the heavens and all things in them. i also know he has
perfect love, and i know his will will be done no matter what and if he
wants those people to join the church, by george, they will join the church
and language will not stop that. miracles happen when we put faith in
christ, if it is Gods will that i learn the language, so i can help them
come unto him and receive everlasting life, you better believe i will. if it
is not, i know that the way will be provided that they will come. no one can
stop that.
"the standard of truth has been errected, no unhallowed hand can stop the
work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may
assemble, calumny may defame; but the truth will go forth boldly, nobly and
independent until it has pierced every continent, reached every country,
swept every climb, and sounded in every ear. until the Great Jehovah shall
say 'the work is done'"
-the standard of truth (i don't know who wrote it and i don't think i quoted
it all the way right.)
"...the field is white, allready to harvest and he that thrusteth in his
sickle with his might, the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not but
bringeth salvation to his soul."
D&C 4:4
i am not sure when i will be able to call you!!! it may not be on christmas.
i need to find out more about that. i hope i get to talk to you soon. you
will know before i call.
sister k blum out
keep the faith and keep reading the scriptures. they will bless your life.
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